Ex-minister Nick Gibb has known as on Boris Johnson to resign, piling additional stress on the prime minister as he seeks to stave off a backbench rise up.
Mr Gibb, the long-serving former colleges minister, on Friday evening grew to become the fifteenth Conservative MP to publicly announce he had submitted a letter of no-confidence within the PM.
His intervention got here hours after Pink Wall MP Aaron Bell additionally known as for Mr Johnson to go.
Mr Gibb attacked Mr Johnson for “flagrantly disregarding” the principles he set “throughout the fortress of 10 Downing Avenue”.
He mentioned his constituents had been “livid in regards to the double requirements” and mentioned the Prime Minister had been “inaccurate” in statements to the Commons.
Writing in The Telegraph, the MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, mentioned: “The Prime Minister accepted the resignation of Allegra Stratton for joking a few Christmas occasion that she hadn’t attended, however he gained’t take duty for people who he did attend.
“I’m sorry to say that it’s onerous to see how it may be the case that the Prime Minister advised the reality.”
He mentioned there was nonetheless help for the prime minister in his constituency, however that voters had been additionally questioning whether or not they may belief Mr Johnson.
The MP mentioned: “To revive belief, we have to change the Prime Minister.”
The whole variety of MPs who’ve publicly known as for Mr Johnson to go to fifteen, however privately the quantity is prone to be greater.
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